Examples of where I communicate clearly and purposefully can be seen in the monument we made. Our monument has a lot of meaning and my partner and I put a lot of thought into building it. The parts of our monument clearly convays the impacts of the battle and its easy to tell what is going on. On the graves it has the number 6,500 and a Canadian flag next to it. This number represents the number of dead and injured Canadian soldiers who have fought in the battle. I decided to put a Canadian flag so people clearly know that its Canadian soldiers and not soldiers in general. The guy on the top is leaning away and has a cloth to his mouth. You can tell that he is trying to get away from something harmful, which is what we were trying to tell.
Some things I think about before dividing tasks among group members include thier strenghts and what they are comfortable with. I let my group memebers decide what they wanted to do before I could. I was fine with any task but I wanted to make sure that they were comfortable with theirs. Their strengths and comfort carry on to their work. We wanted to have the best work possible so thats why we divided our tasks into our strengths.
I can work on representing and adressing multiple perspectives in this project by asking my group members who were doing the writing portion what they thought of the monument. My partner and I created the monument on our own and didnt show our other group members what it was going to look like. I should have shown our outline before we built it and asked for feedback. They could have had good ideas to put in the monument and we missed out on that.
I used creative thinking skills to come up with a landing pad for an egg being dropped from various heights. I knew that I wanted to make a type of trampoline for the egg to bounce off of safely. I recognized that plastic wrap is bouncy and stretchy like a trampoline. I also decided to use yarn to support the plastic wrap and to help cushion the egg’s fall. When we tested the trampoline objects bounced too high and fell out of the structure. Our group decided to add a barrier so that the egg doesn’t bounce or roll off and crack. During this project I took in all my group members ideas and put them together to make a final landing pad. I wanted to make sure everyone ideas were included and heard. The landing pad was very successful and the egg survived all of the heights that it was being dropped from.
I will participate in class more often by sharing information that I know. When the teacher wants us to answer a question, I will raise my hand and answer. I will also contribute my ideas when we have a class discussion. I usually hold back because I don’t know if my ideas and answers are the correct ones. I should step out of my comfort zone and participate more. Having a wrong answer or a bad idea isn’t the end of the world. Participating in class is also beneficial to me because I will understand what we are learning on a deeper level.
When I disagree with someone, I will be patient and talk about our ideas. I want to work on this goal because I often get impatient and annoyed with people who disagree with me or don’t get what we are doing. When people ask simple questions, I get annoyed because I think that it’s easy. I should acknowledge that people need support on different things and help them to the best of my ability. When I disagree with someone, I will try to see where they are coming from and their thinking. I will be more open-minded and use their ideas.
I used my collaboration skills when dividing up the tasks. I talked with my group member’s and asked them what they felt comfortable doing. Based on that information I decided to make the icing, which no one wanted to do. I feel that it’s important for everyone to work on the tasks they want so that the lab would actually be fun for them. I also used collaboration while brainstorming what cupcake and we should make. We came up with a main idea (berry themed) and branched off from there. One of my group members wanted to have a lot of fruit flavour in the cupcake. I came up with the idea of making a berry flavoured icing.
I showed the skill of collaboration in this food’s lab. This was the very first lab we did, and I had to work with very new people. My partner and I divided the roles in this lab. I took on the role of measuring the dry ingredients and mixing it all together. Having equal roles helped us find success in this lab because it went by faster, and we finished on time. I also had the role of dishwasher when cleaning up after the lab. I followed the instructions posted on the cupboards which helped me know what to do and what was expected. Overall, I worked with others to achieve the common goal of baking yummy cookies, getting out of class on time and that’s what we did.
What I can improve on is getting support by other groups when I need help. When my group and I need help we ask the teacher, but we should really ask the groups around us. I shouldn’t be hesitant to ask because it will help my communication skills. In future labs, I will try to keep this in mind to build on this skill further.
AI helped me during this project by generating main ideas and citing websites that it took their information from. I came up with my own points but I needed sources to back up my claims and provide more in depth information about the topic. I made sure that the work I created was still my own by thinking on my own and jotting down ideas, then going to AI to help me further those thoughts. I read what AI had to say and summarized/rewrote what it generated. This helped me understand the topics given to me on a deeper level.
I argued about pro violence in this debate and I half agree with the claims I made. I think that violence helps people gain attention and awareness of what is happening. Even if its bad attention, people would still see and talk about it. Violence is also the last resort for people, so it isn’t used all the time. It shows that people are serious about their beliefs and want change. But I also agree that it can be very traumatizing to victims of violence and scary for people who don’t want to get harmed. Violence can be used stupidly during protests and revolutions which is bad for everyone. That’s why I think violence needs to be used in the right situation when extremely needed.
Core Competency Reflection
I am clear on the difference between simple “group work” and collaboration as evidenced by working together on tasks. We worked together on writing the introduction and conclusion. I knew that we both had things we wanted to say in those parts so I proposed that we work on it together. This is way better than one person doing the intro and the other person doing the conclusion because we collaborated more which helped us create more ideas. Another time where we worked together is the making of arguments. Even though we had our own side, we helped each other get more ideas and a different perspective on the topic.
I compile and synthesize information to draw reasoned conclusions, such as when I wrote the conclusion with my partner. I summarized what I thought were the most important points in this debate and shared it with my partner to make a conclusion. We agreed that violence can be helpful, but it can backfire at times. It is a short conclusion, but I feel like it summarized everything that we talked about while including both sides of the argument.
This slide demonstrates what I considered about the design of this powerpoint while in the process of making it. I wanted the important parts of the slide to pop out so I used a light font colour on a dark background. I found a bright Mike Wazowski picture and put a white border around the cyclops one to make it the focal point of the slide. I made sure that the text was big enough and easy to read for the audience. I would change this slide by making the pictures and text look more cohesive. I think it looks a bit akward and I think everything could flow better. What I can do to fix that is make the images and text more intagrated with one another. I think that will fix the flow of this slide.
Core Competency Self-Assesment
A challenge I faced while doing this assignment was thinking about how Mike Wazowski scares literally and figuratively. He is the main character and protaganist of Monsters Inc. and I struggled to find negative points about him. He does scare children for his job but it still was hard to find more detail about him. He also is considered a bad scarer and isnt scary in his world. He doesnt have any special powers and that fact made it challenging for me to complete my slides. If I were to do this assignment differently I would choose an easier and scarier monster to write on. Most of my challenges included not having enough information about him. Having a scarier monser would fix these challenges.
I persevered over time to develop my ideas, and I expected setbacks and failure, but used that to develop my ideas. A lot of the time, I had to keep on going with the assignment even though I wanted to quit or restart. Some aspects of the building were hard to make, and I wanted to scrap the whole design and make an easier house. I watched videos to help me figure out my problems, some videos worked, and some didn’t. For example, when a video said to use a modifier that didn’t work for me, I had to think of a way to create a similar effect without using it. I knew that all of the videos won’t work for me, and I had to come up with solutions to my problem. Having these failures made me develop my skills and think more creatively. I realized that I don’t have to do everything the video says, and I can take some creative liberty.
I recognized my emotions and used strategies to manage them. Creating models in blender can be very frustrating for a beginner. This was how I felt when doing this assignment. I had quite a lot of setbacks and failures while making the houses that I had to overcome by the use of strategies. I acknowledged that I was getting frustrated and annoyed at the program and I had to calm myself down. I took breaks from the houses by working on additional elements in the scenery. I quite enjoyed making something different and it was very positive and calming for me. When I came back to the houses, I felt better about my skills and more confident about how my houses look. I was also getting overwhelmed about the due date and finishing on time. By half of the week, I wasn’t where I hoped to be. I decided to download blender on my own computer in hopes to get it complete on time. I found that I was more focused and had more energy while working at home. My progress started to pick up and eventually I caught up to where I wanted to be.
I formed new ideas to create new things. I also built on the ideas of others. I tried searching for a good video on how to make a streetlamp. Most of them were confusing or way too long to watch. I put aside the streetlamp to figure out later. One of my buildings had a lantern on its reference photo so I decided to make that in the meantime. I was very satisfied with the result, and I figured that I could use some of the same techniques in the video on my streetlamp. I got a reference photo of a streetlamp and created its shape on my own. I then used the technique of making the light emit and the pole metallic. I really liked how the lights look in my whole scenery. I made another lamp from my own ideas and put it onto another house, even though it didn’t have a lamp in its reference photo.
It is important to remember who benefits from advertisements so that you are aware of if your being targeted or not. Most people aren’t aware that most advertisements you see are targeted towards you. They take information like your age, where you live and financial class and make/give advertisements to you depending on those answers. We should be aware of these advertisements because it’s catered to us, and we would be more likely to buy the product. People should stop and think before buying a product because of its advertisement.
Logical appeal is effective for me and the audience who is viewing the advertisement. I like facts, and when I see an advertisement stating a lot of good things about their product, I would be more likely to buy it. Many people feel that way as well. Logical appeal works because it states amazing facts about the product. We may think that all the facts are true and everything about the product is good. Companies can sugarcoat their product to some degree and trick people into thinking their product is so great. We assume that companies don’t lie and are very truthful in their advertisements, this is often the case, but we should still be very careful and do our own research before buying products.
Testimonial advertising technique works effectively by quoting an expert, famous or regular person. The advertisement uses those testimonials to make people think that they use/recommend the product because its good. Most of the time, the companies are paying the person to say it to make people buy their product. I think its effective in selling a product because a lot of people buy things because others have it. If an influential person says its amazing, then everyone would want to get it to be like the person advertising it. Or if an “expert” claims that its so great, then many ordinary people would buy it because they don’t know its all part of advertising and they believe what the “expert” says. Hearing facts from actual people and not the companies, tricks people into thinking that the testimonies are real, and the famous people or experts have an actual say in the product.
Core Competency Reflection
This is how I selected images and words to create impact for my planned audience: I used lots of colour and text that people would be interested/have a connection with. I used the colour explosion with a black background because it feels exciting and its eye catching. I wanted the advertisement to be appealing to look at because I personally like advertisements that do this. It gets the viewers attention and makes them have a positive thinking of the product, since its so fun and colourful. The text/information that the advertisement has connects with many people. It mentions how the camera is high quality and can capture many memories. This will spark nostalgia and other deep feelings. A lot of us would like to relive our memories or go back to the past. By implying this in the advertisement, it impacts people emotionally and makes them want to buy the product.
Some things I thought about when dividing tasks among my partner was splitting the work evenly and making sure they are comfortable doing their parts. We split both the poster and PowerPoint in half and evenly. For the PowerPoint, I made sure that my partner liked the questions on the slides and knew what she was doing. For some slides, we were unsure of what to write so we collaborated and helped each other out. All the work we did came out to be very even. That was the success with this project. We worked well and efficiently together, and I think that the final product was executed well.
An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas is when my partner didn’t know how to word a certain section of a slide. She knew what she wanted to say but didn’t know how to put it in words. I asked her to tell me the main ideas, and that I could help her figure out what to write. She told me that the advertisement was also emotional appeal. Her points were that it mentions memories and reliving them. I built upon her idea by explaining what I feel when I read the advertisement. She thought that was a good idea and put her feelings into helping her word the slide. I also built upon her idea of having a colourful advertisement. She really wanted colour for eye appeal, but most of the colourful backgrounds we found were too busy and distracting from the product. I came up with the idea of the colour explosion in the background. It doesn’t cover the whole poster and elevates the product. Building upon our ideas made us collaborate more and really connect.
In this sway assignment I demonstrated the competency of understanding and sharing information on topic of interest in a clear, organized way. My sway is organized by the information presented, about the element is in one section, information about the element on the periodic table and origins of the element. Inside those categories I wrote a small intro on what the information below will present to the viewer. The information is separated into paragraphs that are relevant to its sub headings. I also demonstrate the competency of thinking about what I am going to convey and to whom I will convey it. When I was making this sway I put in mind who will be reading it and try to make it easy for them to understand and read the information given. There are some words that people may not know and so I made sure to put in brackets the simplified word or the meaning.
